Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Bass Seem a bit Skinny

That's typical of a LMB stunted pond. They have enough food to get to the length that they are, but once that size not enough food to sustain them.

Your initial stocking was 150 LMB per acre which is fine for a pond where you want to manage for large panfish, but if you want LMB of any size you need to remove a lot. Once you get out the 15# of LMB (remember I said pounds, not number of fish) then you can think about adding more CNBG. If you don't add more CNBG, then take out probably closer to 20# and you might have to do that every year. You will need to remove a minimum of 10# of LMB per year once you get the LMB back up to 100% relative weight. There is a chart for that in the archives.